Erland Cooper's Dawn Chorus & Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending
20:00
Thu 26 Nov 2026
Glasgow City Halls
Book early and save!
Catch the early bird rate: 拢16 today, 拢19 from two weeks before the concert. Students & Under 26s always 拢6.
Programme
- Sula bassanaworld premiere
- Silent Spring(5 mins)
- Suite bergamasque 鈥� Clair de lune(4 mins)arr. Erland Cooper
- The Lark Ascending(15 mins)violin and orchestra
- Unfolding Landscapes(10 mins)
- interval
- to be authentic to one鈥檚 soul is to be happy(11 mins)
- Dawn Chorus(32 mins)world premiere; violin and orchestra
Performers
- Freya Goldmarkviolin
- Robert AmesConductor
About this concert
Celebrate the beauty of nature through sound in Dawn Chorus, a breathtaking new concerto by Emmy-nominated Scottish composer Erland Cooper, that receives its world premiere performance with violinist Freya Goldmark.
Inspired by Sir David Attenborough鈥檚 extraordinary legacy in his 100th birthday year, Cooper 鈥� hailed by The Guardian as 鈥渘ature鈥檚 songwriter鈥� 鈥� weaves the evocative songs of birds and the rhythms of life into a musical tribute to the natural world.
The concert also features classical music curated and introduced by Cooper, including Vaughan Williams's evergreen masterpiece 'The Lark Ascending' and the world premiere of 'Sula Bassana', his "epic" (The Scotsman) symphonic meditation on the natural world. Taking its title from the Northern Gannet, the work draws its central imagery from the Bass Rock off North Berwick, weaving the seabird colony's grandeur into a portrait of the Firth of Forth's Air, Sea and Land.
This is your chance to hear the album performed live for the first time, meet Erland and Freya, and get your copy of the album signed on the night (interval & post-concert).
TICKETS: 拢16 Early Bird Rate; 拢19 within two weeks of the concert
(拢6 for Students & Under 26s)
Seating is unreserved.